Donna felt Zhu Yizhou's gaze, blushed, and lowered her head. Secretly reached over and held Zhu Qiu's hand tightly, and then felt a little more relaxed in his heart.

When Zhu Qiu saw his father's gaze, his heart moved, and in a blink of an eye, he knew his father's intentions.

Now in the United States, the credit crisis is raging, like a plague, and everyone is panicking when they see that there is not enough money. At this time, in order to quell this plague, one must have real money and silver to lend to the major banks to tide over the difficulties of this run; Second, it is also necessary to have a person with prestige to ascend to the heights and calm people's hearts. In this way, this plague can be dissolved.

In the United States, there are only two people who can take this responsibility. However, although Rockefeller also had a lot of wealth, he was only beaten by dung pickers in the past few years, and he was at odds with Theodore Roosevelt, and he had no prestige in the banking world.

Zhu Qiu had long heard that most of the shareholders of this Morgan company were of Jewish ethnicity. Father's intention was obviously to let himself go to Jacobbi. As for the reason, Zhu Qiu couldn't guess. At this moment, Donna was on the side, and Zhu Qiu was not easy to ask. However, when you go to Jacob's place, you will naturally know the reason.

Zhu Qiu nodded and said to his father, "I know what my father means. But my father is here, I'm afraid it's not just about this, right? ”

Zhu Yizhou smiled and said, "There are some old things in the family, you should know at this moment." After saying that, and not seeing him make any movements, Donna suddenly lay on the table, as if asleep.

"Don't worry, it's just that I just put some sleep medicine in her cup. Let her sleep for a while, she still doesn't want to listen to these things. ”

Zhu Qiu was not happy, but he knew that it was related to the secrets of the Zhu family, and it was indeed a little inconvenient for Donna to know. Moved over and gently helped Donna to lie down, and then pulled the quilt over Donna and covered her body.

Zhu Yizhou saw that Zhu Qiu was so careful, and the corners of his mouth smiled slightly, but he put away his tea cup and replaced it with a pot of wine. After pouring himself a cup and about to fill it up for Zhu Qiu, Zhu Qiu shook his hand and said, "I am not yet sixteen years old, and my martial arts have not yet been completed, so I can't drink wine, so it's better to drink tea." With that, he took the teapot and poured a cup.

Zhu Yizhou raised his head and drank the wine in his cup, but asked: "A few days ago, Theodore sent someone to contact the Qing Kingdom, planning to return the Gengzi indemnity to fund our Han youth to study in the United States, do you know about this matter?" ”

Zhu Qiu nodded, and there was news from An Liangtang about this matter. Zhu Qiu thought it was very strange at the time, at this time, the anti-Chinese trend in the United States was very loud, and the Han people were banned from immigrating. Theodore used Gengzi indemnity to encourage Han people to come to the United States to study, and spit out the money he ate, but what he did was such a contradictory thing, which is really incomprehensible. It's just that the Hawaiian lawsuit has reached a critical juncture, and Zhu Qiu has not deepened his investigation.

So Zhu Qiu said: "I am also very strange about this matter. It is rumored that the United States wants to expand its influence in its homeland through students studying in the United States. I don't believe it, though. ”

Zhu Yizhou nodded and said, "That's really nonsense. However, this is a long story. ”

Zhu Yizhou drank another glass of wine before slowly talking about this past love and hatred.

"In order to continue the bloodline, the ancestors cut off the enmity and came to the United States across the ocean. The four then split up, two went to Boston, Massachusetts, and two went to Richmond, Virginia. Meet in five years. At this time, it was the year 1856 in the Western calendar. ”

"My Zhu family has gone through more than 200 years of fighting, and those who survived are all extremely smart. In the past five years, there has been a big situation. When we met five years later, we both felt that it was an excellent choice to cross the ocean at that time. At this time, it was 1861 in the Western calendar. ”

"Soon after the four met, a civil war broke out in the United States."

"Presumably, these four ancestors who survived the environment of hundreds of years of strife must not be willing to be lonely when they saw the war, right?" Zhu Qiu interjected.

Zhu Yizhou laughed loudly: "Haha...... This unwilling to be lonely nature has long been deeply rooted in the bloodline of my Zhu family, who can be an exception! You're right, these four people are really not willing to be lonely, and they are all involved. However, there are also some unavoidable ones. ”

"This Western society, just like the Han Dynasty, is dedicated to the selection of scholars, and the major families are intertwined and monopolize political power. The United States of America is no exception. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the gate valve was in power, but there was also a distinction between the north and the south gate valve. I don't know if it's lucky or unlucky, the southern system is centered on Virginia, and the northern New England department is centered on Massachusetts. ”

"At the time of the founding of the United States, because of the many merits of the Virginia gatekeepers, in the following years, the political affairs were monopolized by the Virginia people. The New England Department, however, took advantage of its ambition to gradually take possession of the newly opened land. Generations later, the situation changed hands, but the Southern Gate Lords were not content to be defeated and broke the shipwreck, provoking a civil war. ”

"At that time, my ancestors were all married, but the people they married were the daughters of the lords of the north and south. Therefore, in this war, the ancestors can only give up for the glory of their wives. ”

In addition to these two reasons, in fact, the ancestors also had a little selfishness. Seeing that the Qing Dynasty was beaten to the ground by the strong ships and cannons of the West, the ancestors secretly also wanted to take advantage of this war to carefully observe the guns and artillery wars in the West, so as to prepare for future emergencies. ”

Saying this, Zhu Yizhou took out a book from his arms and handed it to Zhu Qiu. Zhu Qiu took it and took a look, only to see that there were four big characters written on it: "Donglu Jiwen". Zhu Qiu opened it and took a skim, and there were three or four kinds of handwriting interlaced in it, obviously written by different people; There were even darker stains on dozens of pages of the book, obviously dried bloodstains.

Zhu Yizhou continued: "This booklet is what the ancestors saw and heard in the United States, especially in this war. ”

Speaking of which, the four of them were also very competitive and had the intention to compete with each other, so according to the wife's family, they were still divided into two parties, each for his master, and fought. There is a seven-day battle in the south, and the stone wall is cut in the north. The specific story, after you go back, look through this book, you can understand. Later, it was the Python Project that came out of the way and helped the North win. But the danger is also in sight, and victory is in sight. ”

Zhu Yizhou was silent at this time, and after a long while, until he drank three glasses of spirits in a row, he slowly said again:

"As I said just now, the United States was still practicing the system of honoring filial piety and honesty at that time, but it has passed the time when the nation has not yet developed ignorance, and the trend of the times has become unstoppable. Especially when Abraham was in power, because he was a son of a poor family, he was more interested in following the example of my homeland and implementing a civil service examination system. One of the four ancestors was responsible for drafting the bill. However, the other three ancestors had other plans. ”

"There is a Tang Dynasty, since the opening of the imperial examination, the Han family inheritance has gradually been cut off, from the future history books, the ancestors thought that the family does not exist, in the country and the locality, whether it is more harmful than good. So, the other three ancestors discussed behind closed doors for several months. At that time, the ancestors were born and died in the land of America, and they started a family and started a business, and they really loved this land deeply. The ancestors thought that the civil war in the United States was like the war between the Sui and Tang dynasties of our Han family, and most of the disadvantages of the past had been eliminated, and the prosperous Tang Dynasty was already expected. So I referred to the old system of the Tang Dynasty, and finally came up with a strategy, in order to regain the glory of the Tang Dynasty in this new land, so I named this policy - Tang Ce! ”

"The core of Tang Ce is actually just eight words: the family is the core, and the cold family is the gathering. It is to use this wealthy family as the cornerstone of society to inherit and lead; Using the academy as a medium, select talents from poor families, treat them with knowledge, and rely on them to die. ”

"It's also a good situation. The U.S. constitution was based on a federal system, which was inherently not so powerful that the family would be able to control the whole country. It is also because in the United States, the major colleges are mostly controlled by the gate valve, and the handsome talents in the United States are also mostly from the colleges, which should be the old system of the late Tang Dynasty. The ancestors thought about it, imitated the pattern of the Late Tang Dynasty Academy, and used the college as a place for recruiting protégés. As an example, it is the school controlled by the gate valve where the three ancestral wives are located. ”

"Nowadays, the world is cloudy, and the separation of powers in the United States is the separation of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers. At that time, design was the other three rights. ”

Zhu Yizhou drank another sip of strong wine and continued:

These three powers are economic, political, and consultative powers. With the three gate valve control colleges, the protégés are widely accepted, the selection of junjie, enriched in the various powers, intertwined, with the friendship of teachers and students in the same year, the right to control one side. That is, Harvard College is in charge of the economy; using Yale College to run politics; Use Washington Lee to hold the power of counseling. ”

However, this strategy was too vicious and tyrannical at the beginning, and was not tolerated by the rest of the gates. At this time, the ancestor finished drafting the bill for the civil service examination, and finally provoked the rest of the gate to do it. Taking advantage of a gathering of the four ancestors, they pretended to be rebellious soldiers and looted and killed my Zhu family. In order to hide the eyes and ears of the world, on the same day, Abraham was also assassinated and died. At this time, it was the year 1865 of the Western calendar,"

"Then the way of heaven finally has eyes. My father, Zhu Zhengong, happened to be on his estate in Massachusetts with his mother at that time, and escaped the catastrophe. ”

"After Zhu Zhengong became a public artist, he was determined to take revenge. In the past few years, he has crisscrossed the north and south, killing all the enemies. When he thought that the grudge was over and took me back to his homeland, the real mastermind behind the scenes who destroyed me all appeared, Zhu Zhengong didn't notice it for a while, in order to protect me, after all, like the ancestors, he left his life in this foreign country. ”

"After the death of Duke Zhu Zhen, the United States, who knew the inside story, was really afraid of my Zhu clan every time, so they jointly passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, prohibiting our Han people from immigrating to this United States. Even the existing Han Chinese in China have restrictions on their occupations and places of residence. Later, because Tang Ce was really famous among the American gatekeepers, we Han people were slowly called Tang people by them. ”

Zhu Yizhou sighed, and he couldn't say what it was like in his heart. He drank a few glasses of wine before he said:

"After the death of the ancestors, this American gate valve still wants to implement this Tang policy. But this Tang Ce, if you are not familiar with my Han tradition, you will not be able to learn it after all. Since the death of the four ancestors, the affairs of this academy have gradually deviated from the track. Therefore, when Zhu Zhengong was here, he was entrusted by his mother to recruit a group of young children in his homeland, intending to rely on his strength to clean up the source and continue the Tang policy. But after Zhu Zhengong died, the matter died halfway, and most of the children were recruited back, only two of them who were on the bus with Zhu Zhen stayed. A few months later, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed. This bill is actually aimed at my Zhu wife's family. Since then, the United States of America has gradually become like this. ”

Zhu Yizhou sighed, really sad for the unpaid ambitions of the ancestors.

"Could it be that the refund of Gengzi's compensation this time was secretly arranged by my father?" Zhu Qiu asked.

Zhu Yizhou nodded and said, "Not bad." In the past few years, I have been in the United States, and I have gradually reunited the gate valves that I had befriended with the Zhu family before, and now it has become a small climate. The matter of the students studying in the United States this time is just a test to see the reaction of those people. Second, I see that your layout in your homeland over the years is still a little smaller. You translate some books for them, and the results are too slow. What's more, on paper, it is still too shallow. I asked them to come to America to experience it for themselves, and when they went back, they passed on ten, ten, and hundred, and the foundation of the Qing family was destroyed by ants. ”

Hearing his father's words, Zhu Qiu was silent, and after a while, he asked, "Does my father also want to reproduce the prosperous Tang Dynasty in this United States?" ”

Zhu Yizhou sighed and said, "Actually, this America is not an exaggeration to say that it is my Zhu's second hometown. If you can surpass the Tang Dynasty according to what the three ancestors thought, it may not be impossible. It's just that the past 20 years have been intermittent, and the person who presides over it is not effective, I'm afraid it's just a form. Even if I have a heart, the United States is not the world's leading power now, and secondly, the academic performance of the colleges is really poor, at best it is just a place for classmates to socialize. If you want to achieve the hegemony of the Tang Dynasty, the road is long! ”

Zhu Qiu disagreed, and said to his father: "I don't think so. Since the ancestors proposed Tang Ce, there must be a deep meaning in it. As far as I can see, the United States is a continent with a vast land and a superior geography; It can also absorb all rivers and integrate the essence of various ethnic groups, and even the Jewish people, who are hated like devils by all countries, can be gladly accepted, and their subsequent development will be unlimited. Today, although the United States is suffering from economic turmoil and political chaos, there will be great governance after the chaos. Moreover, the unification of Germany in Europe under the hands of Bismarck and the gradual rise of the German emperor, the German emperor even more learned from the development of overseas colonies, and his actions will inevitably destroy the balance of power in Europe. Within 10 years, there will be a war in Europe. At that time, if the United States could take advantage of the situation, weaken Europe, and recruit talent, the last wish of the ancestors may not be unfulfilled. ”

Zhu Yizhou glanced at Zhu Qiu deeply when he heard this, and then he remembered that this son is a person who has experienced the future world, and he is much clearer about this overall situation. Zhu Yizhou nodded and said: "That is the case, you and my father and son should redouble their efforts, if today gives my Zhu family a great opportunity, to be able to realize the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties on these two continents, it is really exciting to think about it!" ”

Zhu Qiu saw that his father was fierce, and although he had some words in his heart, he still stopped and did not say that he would come out. Just another question:

"Father, I don't know who is behind the scenes who wants to destroy my Zhu family?"